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12-letter words containing e, s, d, r

  • armed forces — The armed forces or the armed services of a country are its military forces, usually the army, navy, marines, and air force.
  • arsenic acid — a white poisonous soluble crystalline solid used in the manufacture of arsenates and insecticides. Formula: H3AsO4
  • arseniureted — combined with arsenic
  • arts student — a person studying an arts subject
  • ash-coloured — silver-grey in colour
  • assortedness — the position of being sorted, grouped or harmonized with, well or badly, or provided with a good or bad assortment or mixture
  • autodestruct — likely to or possessing the power to destroy or obliterate itself or its possessor
  • autodiallers — Plural form of autodialler.
  • backwardness — toward the back or rear.
  • bactericides — Plural form of bactericide.
  • badger skunk — hog-nosed skunk (def 1).
  • badger state — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
  • badger-skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
  • baker island — an island in the central Pacific near the equator, belonging to the U.S. 1 sq. mi. (2.6 sq. km).
  • bald cypress — a tree, Taxodium distichum, of swampy areas of the southern U.S., having featherlike needles and cone-shaped projections growing up from the roots, yielding a hardwood used in construction, shipbuilding, etc.
  • bandersnatch — a fictional creature created by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, and appearing also in The Hunting of the Snark and Through the Looking-Glass
  • bandjermasin — a seaport on the S coast of Borneo, in Indonesia.
  • basal reader — an elementary-school textbook that teaches reading by combining stories with practice exercises: The Dick and Jane series was the most famous basal reader.
  • basidiospore — one of the spores, usually four in number, produced in a basidium
  • bastard file — a file of the commercial grade of coarseness between coarse and second-cut.
  • battle dress — military field uniform and accouterments, generally camouflaged and stripped of all ornamentation.
  • bearded seal — a large gray-to-golden seal, Erignathus barbatus, inhabiting the Arctic Ocean and adjacent waters, having square foreflippers and a thick mustache of long bristles on each side of the muzzle.
  • beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
  • bed of roses — If you say that a situation is not a bed of roses, you mean that it is not as pleasant as it seems, and that there are some unpleasant aspects to it.
  • bedfordshire — a county of S central England, administered since 2009 by the unitary authorities of Bedford and Central Bedfordshire: mainly low-lying, with the Chiltern Hills in the south: the geographical county includes Luton, which became a separate unitary authority in 1997. Area (excluding Luton): 1192 sq km (460 sq miles)
  • bedroom eyes — sexy eyes
  • bell gardens — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • beth midrash — a place where Jews gather to study the Talmud and other religious writings; a small synagogue.
  • biodiversity — Biodiversity is the existence of a wide variety of plant and animal species living in their natural environment.
  • bird nesting — the activity of searching for birds' nests as a hobby
  • bird-s--nest — nest (def 1).
  • bird-spotter — a bird-watcher
  • bleed sb dry — If someone is being bled dry or is being bled white, all of their money or other resources are gradually being taken away from them.
  • blood sister — a sister by birth
  • body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
  • body repairs — repairs to the bodywork of cars
  • body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
  • boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
  • bois de rose — a grayish red or dark purplish red color.
  • bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
  • booster dose — a supplementary injection of a vaccine given to maintain the immunization provided by an earlier dose
  • border state — a state adjacent to a border
  • border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
  • bosom friend — an intimate friend
  • bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
  • bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
  • brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
  • bread basket — If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
  • bread-basket — a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
  • breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
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